Canada

Canada is composed of ten provinces and three territories. Canada is a vast nation with a wide variety of geological formations, climates, and ecological systems. It has rain forest, prairie grassland, deciduous forest, tundra, and wetlands. Canada has more lakes and inland waters than any other country. Its resource endowments are the second richest in the world after Australia.Canada has vivid blue lakes and rivers and an impressive coastline.With sun-bleached wheat fields and lunar badlands lying to the east of the serrated mountain peaks, Canada is far from one-dimensional.

Excellent museums and interpretive sites showcase the area's past, from the days of the dinosaurs to the times that tribes stalked buffalo across the plains. Canada isn't all vast wilderness, either. Its major cities have a cosmopolitan atmosphere offering everything from cultural activities to Olympic sites to the world's largest shopping mall.

Canada is the second largest country in the world but has about the same population as California. This is because the north of Canada is sparsely inhabited. More than 3/4 Canadians live in metropolitan areas, the largest of which are Toronto, Ontario; Montréal, Québec; Vancouver, British Columbia; Ottawa, Ontario; Hull, Québec; and Edmonton, Alberta. French and English are the official languages. This trend continues into the 21st century: Canada is one of the few countries in the world that still has significant immigration programs.